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Andy Aoki discusses influence of vice presidential picks

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WCCO TV recently sought counsel from Andy Aoki, professor and department chair of political science at Augsburg College, to answer a question about how much a presidential candidate’s vice president selection聽influences voters.

鈥淗ow Much Does The Vice President Pick聽Matter?鈥� was the focus of the聽recent Good Question segment.

Aoki provided a straightforward answer.

鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 usually matter a lot,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he vice presidents tend to get a lot less attention, so it鈥檚 not that easy for people to make their pick based on them because you don鈥檛 know much about them.

on the聽WCCO site.

Andy Aoki helps answer WCCO’s “Good Question”

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WCCO - logoWCCO recently sought counsel from Andy Aoki, professor and department chair of political science at Augsburg College, to answer a viewer’s question about the timing of the New Hampshire Primary and the Iowa Caucus.

“Why do Iowa and New Hampshire vote first?” was the focus of the聽recent Good Question segment.

Aoki provided a straightforward answer.

“Today, they鈥檙e first because they want to be,” he said before explaining the history of the events in more detail. The segment goes on to explain how the advent of television turned the previously ignored New Hampshire primary into a nation-wide media spectacle. This prompted the state to pass a law requiring that they remain the first to select a candidate.

How did Iowa end up voting earlier? “Technically, New Hampshire is the first primary and Iowa is the first caucus, so they鈥檝e worked out a little agreement,” Aoki explained.

Read and watch: on the WCCO site.

Bridget Robinson-Riegler answers WCCO 鈥楪ood Question鈥�

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Professor Bridget Robinson-Riegler spoke with WCCO-TV about how humans recall their memories聽for the聽news station鈥檚 Good Question segment. Robinson-Riegler, who teaches in the College鈥檚 psychology聽department, explained to television viewers that its common for聽individuals to have mismemories. She commented that memories are not like tape recorders in that people聽replay them exactly as they happened. Instead, memories聽are reconstructed, so when the聽brain encodes memories, it聽encodes different pieces of different events.

鈥淲hen we go to recall it, we piece together different aspects of events,鈥� Robinson-Riegler聽said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not just the event that happened we鈥檙e trying to remember but other events similar to it.鈥�

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